The reason why you’re so hungry + can’t lose weight 🔊⬆️
When you consume sugar or starchy foods, your blood sugar levels spike. This triggers a surge of insulin, the hormone responsible for storing excess fuel. Insulin shuttles that fuel straight into your fat cells—especially around your belly—leaving your bloodstream depleted of energy.
This phenomenon, called “fuel partitioning,” tricks your brain into thinking you’re starving, even though your fat cells are full. It’s a biological mismatch that leads to intense cravings and overeating.
Over time, this cycle can drive significant weight gain and metabolic dysfunction, as your body becomes increasingly insulin-resistant and struggles to regulate blood sugar.
Breaking free starts with stabilizing your blood sugar. Focus on high-quality proteins, healthy fats, and fiber-rich foods that support your metabolism and keep hunger in check.
When you work with your biology, you can reclaim your health.
Dairy is delicious. That is the trap. It is also inflammatory, easy to overeat, and very good at causing weight gain. Milk was built to fatten a baby mammal, not to be part of your adult diet. If you love cheese and still cannot lose the weight or the puffiness, watch this. https://t.co/7mQP2tKdQe
Today, I’m going to give you ten years of therapy in two minutes.
I'm a brain surgeon, and I'm gonna show you how to make rapid progress in healing the wounds you’ve been carrying; the ones from childhood, from broken relationships, from things said that can’t be unsaid, and from things done that can’t be undone. Let's scrub in and get it done.
Here's a Fact: Your Wound Lives in Your Brain, But Your Healing Lives in Your Mind
When something hurts you, your brain stores it. The sights, the sounds, the sting of the words, the shape of the moment. That storage is real and physical.
But here’s where the hope of healing lies: your brain doesn’t get the final vote on what that memory means to you. Your mind does. And your mind is not the same thing as your brain.
Neuroscience nugget: Emotional memories get encoded in circuits involving the amygdala and hippocampus, but each time you recall a memory, it becomes temporarily unstable and gets rewritten via a process called reconsolidation. That means every time you revisit a wound, you have a fresh chance to change how it’s stored.
Self-Brain Surgery Procedure: The next time an old wound surfaces, don’t just relive it. Instead, reframe it while it’s “open.” Ask: What is the truest, most redemptive way to understand this moment now? Speak that new understanding out loud before you let the memory close back up.
Scripture: “He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.” Psalm 147:3, NIV
This is self-brain surgery. Hard and holy work.
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🚨🚨 Las drogas prescritas por tu médico te van a matar, son la tercera causa de muerte...
Las estatinas para reducir el colesterol causan DEMENCIA... hay cinco medicamentos comunes de uso diario que también lo causan...
💊 Benadryl es un medicamento anticolinérgico. Su principio activo es difenhidramina HCL. Es popular como medicamento independiente para la alergia, pero también se utiliza como somnífero en medicamentos de venta libre como Advil PM y Tylenol PM. Atraviesa la barrera hematoencefálica y bloquea el neurotransmisor acetilcolina, responsable de la memoria, el aprendizaje y el estado de ánimo.
💊 Los opiáceos alteran la serotonina, la dopamina y el hipocampo, región cerebral responsable de la memoria y el estado de ánimo. También causan inflamación cerebral. Miles de personas utilizan combinaciones de medicamentos que contienen codeína para el dolor crónico, como Tylenol 3, Norco y Percocet.
💊 Inhibidores de la bomba de protones IBP... El omeprazol (Prilosec) y todos los antiácidos IBP solo han sido aprobados como seguros durante 14 días. Bloquean la acidez estomacal, lo que provoca deficiencias graves, como la de vitamina B12, responsable de la cognición. Reducen el flujo sanguíneo al cerebro y causan placas amiloides. Su uso durante más de 5 años resulta en un aumento del 40 % en la incidencia de Alzheimer de inicio rápido. Algunos ejemplos incluyen Prilosec, Nexium, Aciphex y Prevacid.
💊 Benzodiazepinas... reducen el tamaño de las regiones cerebrales del hipocampo y la amígdala, responsables de la memoria y el estado de ánimo. Entre las benzodiazepinas más comunes se encuentran el Xanax, el Valium y el Klonopin.
💊 Antidepresivos tricíclicos, ahora se recetan para el dolor crónico. Otro grupo de fármacos anticolinérgicos bloquea el neurotransmisor crucial acetilcolina. La deficiencia de acetilcolina causa Alzheimer y miastenia grave. Miles de personas toman Elavil y Nortriptilina como analgésicos crónicos y desconocen que causan Alzheimer y demencia.
Dr Zain Hasan.